Hadwin's Judgement

Hadwin’s Judgement is a stunning documentary by Sasha Snow based on the award winning book The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant. It chronicles the tormented transformation of Grant Hadwin, a logging engineer and expert woodsman in the remote interior of British Columbia into an environmental terrorist who dared to challenge the destruction of the world’s last great temperate rainforest. Hadwin’s one-man crusade culminated in a perverse and outrageous act of protest that was, in itself, a crime against nature. The film interweaves speculation, myth and reality to explore his motives, taking us on a journey into the dark heart of resource extraction, a journey that ends with a mysterious discovery that made Hadwin not just a madman, but also a visionary.